BH133: "The M************ Saga Continues..."*
QLL Recap
Tuesday saw a tight, tight Quiz League of London game against Nomads, with the result being that the Broken Hearts emerged victorious and the only undefeated team left in the championship. I mucked around with positions (Stainer 1, Bayley 2, myself 3, Mark 4) and it worked out pretty well. Either that or positions are completely meaningless and the only thing we can rely on is the content of our quiz character.
I was also quite content that my post-match, self-made sandwiches (mozzarella and milano salami making possibly their first ever QLL appearance) didn't result in an outbreak of food poisoning. It seems I have Butlin's to thank for my old catering skills (ah, such sweet, sun-dappled memories of taking up smoking and pilfering massive amounts of food from their kitchens - well I was paid £99 for a 39-hour week. £99! And yet, at the time, that weekly pay packet made me feel like the richest 16-year-old in the world. Pity I spent most of it on designer clothes that got stolen by nefarious Armani Jeans-loving beings and cigarettes to feed my burgeoning ciggy-chaining habit).
Anyway, I'll leave it to Stainer to sum up the match in his own inimitable style: "Broken Hearts made it four wins out of four tonight with a close-run victory over Nomads. Our opponents' team, combining Lea and Steeples, formerly of Animals, with Frazer and Bennett, boasted four of the stronger players in the league.
And so it proved. Broken Hearts eked out a two-point lead over the first four rounds but Nomads regained that ground on round five. It was level at the end of round six, but Nomads chose the worst possible time to turn in two four-point rounds, and we capitalised to win the game 52-46. Individual scores were Mark with 11, Ian with 12, me with 14 and TQG with 15. Each Nomad scored 10 or more as well, so (unusually) each player will be "mentioned in despatches" by Rob Willer when he returns from his sojourn in Barbados.
TQG also deserves credit for his sandwich making skills which will be remembered fondly by all present. Finally, thanks to Jenny who braved a bout of queasiness to read the questions and then entertain us with her friendly set (except for me, as I only scored 5 points).
BH133
1 What word for a mass of metal, such as gold or silver, cast in a mould takes its name from the Old English for "to pour in metal"?
2 "Ingress" is the act of what?
3 What name for an elementary particle postulated as a constituent of neutrons and protons was coined in c.1969 by physicist Richard P Feynman?
4 The ancient kingdom of Parthia was located in the north-east of which modern day country?
5 Now the name of a rector or vicar or other clergyman holding a benefice, who was originally the legal person by whom the property of God or the church in the parish was actually held?
6 Coined in 1832 by French geologist and mineralogist Francois Beudant, smithsonite is the name given to a carbonate of which metal?
7 The name for which air-breathing gastropod probably comes from the Norwegian dialect word for a "large heavy body" or "heavy slow person"?
8 The roots of which climbing shrub yield sarsparilla?
9 Which season shares its name with a heavy horizontal beam or glider that itself ultimately derives its name from the Greek for "packsaddle"?
10 Which dish of thin slices of meat and vegetables derives its name from the Japanese for "spade roasting"?
11 Which word for a Muslim pantheistic, philosopher and mystic comes from the Arabic word for "woollen", so named from the rough woollen garment associated with ascetics?
12 Which Italian/Spanish dance characterised by sudden skips comes from the Spanish "to leap" or "to dance"?
13 Which Czech gymnast won the Olympics Women's All-Around title in 1964 and 1968?
14 Which golfer won the Open Championship at Hoylake in 1947 becoming the only Ulsterman to take the title?
15 Which football club became the only non-league team to win the FA Cup since the League began (1888-89) in 1901?
16 Nicknamed "Lights Out", which Michigan-born boxer knocked out Michael Nunn in round 11 to become IBF middleweight champion in 1991 and later that year beat Mike McCallum to become WBA champion?
17 The American, Chet Snouffer, became the first individual world champion of which sport in 1989?
18 The first final of which tournament in 1949 saw Malaysia defeat Denmark 8-1 at Preston?
19 Who left athletics for an acting career after he won the decathlon at the 1976 Summer Olympics?
20 Which freshwater fish, whose maximum length is 40-45 cm, has the Latin name Scardinius erythrophthalmus?
21 Beginning as quarterback with the Chicago Bears and finally announcing his retirement as an Oakland Raiders player in 1975 shortly before his 49th birthday, whose 26-year career is the longest in pro-football history?
22 Which German won her eighth Olympic canoeing gold in 2004. having started at Moscow in 1980?
23 Which famous Olympian was born in Onesti, Moldavia on November 12, 1961?
24 The Dutchman Willem Ruska, the Frenchman Angelo Parisi and Japan's Hitoshi Saito all won Olympic gold in the Heavyweight category of which sport?
25 Captain Edward "Chicken" Hartopp of the 10th Hussars organised the first English match in which sport on Hounslow Heath in 1869?
26 The most successful modern racing pigeons were developed in which country, where the first long distance race of more than 100 miles took place in 1818?
27 Which Australian rugby league club won the first World Club Challenge in 1976, beating St Helens 25-2?
28 Which French king (1423-83) is often credited with first playing billiards indoors on a table?
29 By what Japanese name is the referee in sumo wrestling known?
30 The most prestigious form of powerboat racing is organised by the UIM, whose name stands for "Union Internationale" what?
31 What term describes a plant accidentally introduced into an area during cultivation of another species?
32 What name for a conical, sharply pointed fossil shell of a cephalopod, allied to the cuttlefish, comes from the Greek word for "dart"?
33 What phrase for a red dust storm takes its name from a town in Queensland, Australia?
34 Derived from the Old French for a "bib", what name describes the lower part of a visor?
35 Deriving its name the man of Messenia in Sicily who formulated it c. 300BC, what theory states that the classic gods are merely deified kings and heroes, and their fantastic feats exaggerated traditions of actual events?
36 In which German city was the first cigar factory opened in 1788?
37 In the world of cinema, what was the name of the earliest colour film, patented in Britain by George Albert Smith in 1906?
38 El Cid got his name from the Arabic word "sayyid" meaning what?
39 The Australian double drummer is a species of which insect?
40 The female politician Tansu Ciller became prime minister of which country in 1993?
41 Reappearing in 1992, which comet is the parent of the Perseid meteors?
42 In which cathedral is Christopher Columbus buried?
43 Which artist and school founder painted the watercolour Greta Bridge, Yorkshire - on display in the British Museum - in about 1805?
44 Which Italian philosopher's Filosofia dello spirito/Philosophy of the Spirit (1902-1917) was a landmark in idealism?
45 Which river port and industrial city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, at the confluence of the Rhine and Ruhr rivers is the largest inland river port in Europe?
46 In which Irish county is the monastery of Kells, where the illuminated gospel book was produced in the 8th century?
47 The title of duke was created in 1337 when Edward III created his son Edward, Duke of where?
48 Which daughter of the Spanish count of Montijo married Louis Napoleon, who had become emperor as Napoleon III, in 1853?
49 Which architect designed Belgrave Square, London, in 1825?
50 Which composer died from typhoid at the age of 31 on November 19, 1828?
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1 Ingot 2 Entering 3 Parton 4 Iran 5 Parson 6 Zinc 7 Slug 8 Smilax 9 Summer 10 Sukiyaki 11 Sufi 12 Saltarello 13 Vera Caslavska 14 Fred Daly 15 Tottenham Hotspur 16 James Toney 17 Boomerang 18 Thomas Cup (badminton) 19 Bruce Jenner 20 Rudd 21 George F Blanda 22 Birgit Fischer 23 Nadia Comaneci 24 Judo 25 Polo 26 Belgium 27 Eastern Suburbs 28 Louis XI 29 Gyoji 30 Motonautique 31 Anthropophyte 32 Belemnite 33 Bedowrie shower 34 Beaver 35 Euhemerism (as in Euhemerus of Messenia) 36 Hamburg 37 Kinemacolor 38 Master 39 Cicada 40 Turkey 41 Swift-Tuttle 42 Seville 43 John Cotman 44 Benedetto Croce 45 Duisburg 46 Meath 47 Cornwall 48 Eugenie, Marie Ignace Augustine de Montijo 49 George Basevi 50 Schubert
*NWA quote. Much beloved of my gangsta rap dayz
Tuesday saw a tight, tight Quiz League of London game against Nomads, with the result being that the Broken Hearts emerged victorious and the only undefeated team left in the championship. I mucked around with positions (Stainer 1, Bayley 2, myself 3, Mark 4) and it worked out pretty well. Either that or positions are completely meaningless and the only thing we can rely on is the content of our quiz character.
I was also quite content that my post-match, self-made sandwiches (mozzarella and milano salami making possibly their first ever QLL appearance) didn't result in an outbreak of food poisoning. It seems I have Butlin's to thank for my old catering skills (ah, such sweet, sun-dappled memories of taking up smoking and pilfering massive amounts of food from their kitchens - well I was paid £99 for a 39-hour week. £99! And yet, at the time, that weekly pay packet made me feel like the richest 16-year-old in the world. Pity I spent most of it on designer clothes that got stolen by nefarious Armani Jeans-loving beings and cigarettes to feed my burgeoning ciggy-chaining habit).
Anyway, I'll leave it to Stainer to sum up the match in his own inimitable style: "Broken Hearts made it four wins out of four tonight with a close-run victory over Nomads. Our opponents' team, combining Lea and Steeples, formerly of Animals, with Frazer and Bennett, boasted four of the stronger players in the league.
And so it proved. Broken Hearts eked out a two-point lead over the first four rounds but Nomads regained that ground on round five. It was level at the end of round six, but Nomads chose the worst possible time to turn in two four-point rounds, and we capitalised to win the game 52-46. Individual scores were Mark with 11, Ian with 12, me with 14 and TQG with 15. Each Nomad scored 10 or more as well, so (unusually) each player will be "mentioned in despatches" by Rob Willer when he returns from his sojourn in Barbados.
TQG also deserves credit for his sandwich making skills which will be remembered fondly by all present. Finally, thanks to Jenny who braved a bout of queasiness to read the questions and then entertain us with her friendly set (except for me, as I only scored 5 points).
BH133
1 What word for a mass of metal, such as gold or silver, cast in a mould takes its name from the Old English for "to pour in metal"?
2 "Ingress" is the act of what?
3 What name for an elementary particle postulated as a constituent of neutrons and protons was coined in c.1969 by physicist Richard P Feynman?
4 The ancient kingdom of Parthia was located in the north-east of which modern day country?
5 Now the name of a rector or vicar or other clergyman holding a benefice, who was originally the legal person by whom the property of God or the church in the parish was actually held?
6 Coined in 1832 by French geologist and mineralogist Francois Beudant, smithsonite is the name given to a carbonate of which metal?
7 The name for which air-breathing gastropod probably comes from the Norwegian dialect word for a "large heavy body" or "heavy slow person"?
8 The roots of which climbing shrub yield sarsparilla?
9 Which season shares its name with a heavy horizontal beam or glider that itself ultimately derives its name from the Greek for "packsaddle"?
10 Which dish of thin slices of meat and vegetables derives its name from the Japanese for "spade roasting"?
11 Which word for a Muslim pantheistic, philosopher and mystic comes from the Arabic word for "woollen", so named from the rough woollen garment associated with ascetics?
12 Which Italian/Spanish dance characterised by sudden skips comes from the Spanish "to leap" or "to dance"?
13 Which Czech gymnast won the Olympics Women's All-Around title in 1964 and 1968?
14 Which golfer won the Open Championship at Hoylake in 1947 becoming the only Ulsterman to take the title?
15 Which football club became the only non-league team to win the FA Cup since the League began (1888-89) in 1901?
16 Nicknamed "Lights Out", which Michigan-born boxer knocked out Michael Nunn in round 11 to become IBF middleweight champion in 1991 and later that year beat Mike McCallum to become WBA champion?
17 The American, Chet Snouffer, became the first individual world champion of which sport in 1989?
18 The first final of which tournament in 1949 saw Malaysia defeat Denmark 8-1 at Preston?
19 Who left athletics for an acting career after he won the decathlon at the 1976 Summer Olympics?
20 Which freshwater fish, whose maximum length is 40-45 cm, has the Latin name Scardinius erythrophthalmus?
21 Beginning as quarterback with the Chicago Bears and finally announcing his retirement as an Oakland Raiders player in 1975 shortly before his 49th birthday, whose 26-year career is the longest in pro-football history?
22 Which German won her eighth Olympic canoeing gold in 2004. having started at Moscow in 1980?
23 Which famous Olympian was born in Onesti, Moldavia on November 12, 1961?
24 The Dutchman Willem Ruska, the Frenchman Angelo Parisi and Japan's Hitoshi Saito all won Olympic gold in the Heavyweight category of which sport?
25 Captain Edward "Chicken" Hartopp of the 10th Hussars organised the first English match in which sport on Hounslow Heath in 1869?
26 The most successful modern racing pigeons were developed in which country, where the first long distance race of more than 100 miles took place in 1818?
27 Which Australian rugby league club won the first World Club Challenge in 1976, beating St Helens 25-2?
28 Which French king (1423-83) is often credited with first playing billiards indoors on a table?
29 By what Japanese name is the referee in sumo wrestling known?
30 The most prestigious form of powerboat racing is organised by the UIM, whose name stands for "Union Internationale" what?
31 What term describes a plant accidentally introduced into an area during cultivation of another species?
32 What name for a conical, sharply pointed fossil shell of a cephalopod, allied to the cuttlefish, comes from the Greek word for "dart"?
33 What phrase for a red dust storm takes its name from a town in Queensland, Australia?
34 Derived from the Old French for a "bib", what name describes the lower part of a visor?
35 Deriving its name the man of Messenia in Sicily who formulated it c. 300BC, what theory states that the classic gods are merely deified kings and heroes, and their fantastic feats exaggerated traditions of actual events?
36 In which German city was the first cigar factory opened in 1788?
37 In the world of cinema, what was the name of the earliest colour film, patented in Britain by George Albert Smith in 1906?
38 El Cid got his name from the Arabic word "sayyid" meaning what?
39 The Australian double drummer is a species of which insect?
40 The female politician Tansu Ciller became prime minister of which country in 1993?
41 Reappearing in 1992, which comet is the parent of the Perseid meteors?
42 In which cathedral is Christopher Columbus buried?
43 Which artist and school founder painted the watercolour Greta Bridge, Yorkshire - on display in the British Museum - in about 1805?
44 Which Italian philosopher's Filosofia dello spirito/Philosophy of the Spirit (1902-1917) was a landmark in idealism?
45 Which river port and industrial city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, at the confluence of the Rhine and Ruhr rivers is the largest inland river port in Europe?
46 In which Irish county is the monastery of Kells, where the illuminated gospel book was produced in the 8th century?
47 The title of duke was created in 1337 when Edward III created his son Edward, Duke of where?
48 Which daughter of the Spanish count of Montijo married Louis Napoleon, who had become emperor as Napoleon III, in 1853?
49 Which architect designed Belgrave Square, London, in 1825?
50 Which composer died from typhoid at the age of 31 on November 19, 1828?
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Answers to BH133
1 Ingot 2 Entering 3 Parton 4 Iran 5 Parson 6 Zinc 7 Slug 8 Smilax 9 Summer 10 Sukiyaki 11 Sufi 12 Saltarello 13 Vera Caslavska 14 Fred Daly 15 Tottenham Hotspur 16 James Toney 17 Boomerang 18 Thomas Cup (badminton) 19 Bruce Jenner 20 Rudd 21 George F Blanda 22 Birgit Fischer 23 Nadia Comaneci 24 Judo 25 Polo 26 Belgium 27 Eastern Suburbs 28 Louis XI 29 Gyoji 30 Motonautique 31 Anthropophyte 32 Belemnite 33 Bedowrie shower 34 Beaver 35 Euhemerism (as in Euhemerus of Messenia) 36 Hamburg 37 Kinemacolor 38 Master 39 Cicada 40 Turkey 41 Swift-Tuttle 42 Seville 43 John Cotman 44 Benedetto Croce 45 Duisburg 46 Meath 47 Cornwall 48 Eugenie, Marie Ignace Augustine de Montijo 49 George Basevi 50 Schubert
*NWA quote. Much beloved of my gangsta rap dayz
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